Mark H
@neonbubble@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Snap from the garden this morning. We've now filled two 3.6kg tubs with blackberries and one 3.6kg tub with raspberries, and there is enough fruit still growing to double both those numbers. We've decided that we've got to start on the alcohol processing now to free up space so first up will be blackberry wine, brandy, and whiskey, then we'll look for a raspberry wine, then blackberry/raspberry blend. Maybe crumbles. Who knows?

#Gardening#Fruit#Garden

A portrait orientation view of half a dozen raspberries on a cane, some ripe, some almost there. Behind, there's another cane with large, dark green leaves and a few bits of red showing more raspberries. We're in a garden so behind we can see some soil then bamboo fencing along a wall separating this garden from the neighbours. The backs of a terrace of Edwardian era two-storey houses fills the very rear of the view and there's a little bit of sky visible, a patchy mix of pale blue sky and thin, puffy white clouds.
A portrait orientation view of half a dozen raspberries on a cane, some ripe, some almost there. Behind, there's another cane with large, dark green leaves and a few bits of red showing more raspberries. We're in a garden so behind we can see some soil then bamboo fencing along a wall separating this garden from the neighbours. The backs of a terrace of Edwardian era two-storey houses fills the very rear of the view and there's a little bit of sky visible, a patchy mix of pale blue sky and thin, puffy white clouds.
A portrait orientation view of half a dozen raspberries on a cane, some ripe, some almost there. Behind, there's another cane with large, dark green leaves and a few bits of red showing more raspberries. We're in a garden so behind we can see some soil then bamboo fencing along a wall separating this garden from the neighbours. The backs of a terrace of Edwardian era two-storey houses fills the very rear of the view and there's a little bit of sky visible, a patchy mix of pale blue sky and thin, puffy white clouds.
Helena
@Hellybootwader@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

If you need a break, and we all do:
Take a moment in the community garden. Enjoy the flowers, listen to the bees droning, watch the butterflies, there are lots of different kinds visiting.
If you are lucky you might spot a dragonfly, deer or red squirrel. A buzzard might call overhead.

This was a patch of scrubby ground where the veg plot site is only a few years ago. Change can be for good.

#garden#CommunityGarden

View over a veg plot with raised beds visible over the top of some red crocosmia flowers with bright green strappy leaves, dyer’s chamomile flowers are a bright spot of yellow in the middle of the picture. Purple spikes of red orach plants are in the centre with a backdrop of a large darker purple copper beech tree. On the left of the photo perennial leek bulbils are held on the top of long stalks, tansy flowers are behind them. Flowers of fennel are on the right hand side. The paths are woodchip. It a is calm and quiet mood.
View over a veg plot with raised beds visible over the top of some red crocosmia flowers with bright green strappy leaves, dyer’s chamomile flowers are a bright spot of yellow in the middle of the picture. Purple spikes of red orach plants are in the centre with a backdrop of a large darker purple copper beech tree. On the left of the photo perennial leek bulbils are held on the top of long stalks, tansy flowers are behind them. Flowers of fennel are on the right hand side. The paths are woodchip. It a is calm and quiet mood.
View over a veg plot with raised beds visible over the top of some red crocosmia flowers with bright green strappy leaves, dyer’s chamomile flowers are a bright spot of yellow in the middle of the picture. Purple spikes of red orach plants are in the centre with a backdrop of a large darker purple copper beech tree. On the left of the photo perennial leek bulbils are held on the top of long stalks, tansy flowers are behind them. Flowers of fennel are on the right hand side. The paths are woodchip. It a is calm and quiet mood.
Helena
@Hellybootwader@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

If you need a break, and we all do:
Take a moment in the community garden. Enjoy the flowers, listen to the bees droning, watch the butterflies, there are lots of different kinds visiting.
If you are lucky you might spot a dragonfly, deer or red squirrel. A buzzard might call overhead.

This was a patch of scrubby ground where the veg plot site is only a few years ago. Change can be for good.

#garden#CommunityGarden

View over a veg plot with raised beds visible over the top of some red crocosmia flowers with bright green strappy leaves, dyer’s chamomile flowers are a bright spot of yellow in the middle of the picture. Purple spikes of red orach plants are in the centre with a backdrop of a large darker purple copper beech tree. On the left of the photo perennial leek bulbils are held on the top of long stalks, tansy flowers are behind them. Flowers of fennel are on the right hand side. The paths are woodchip. It a is calm and quiet mood.
View over a veg plot with raised beds visible over the top of some red crocosmia flowers with bright green strappy leaves, dyer’s chamomile flowers are a bright spot of yellow in the middle of the picture. Purple spikes of red orach plants are in the centre with a backdrop of a large darker purple copper beech tree. On the left of the photo perennial leek bulbils are held on the top of long stalks, tansy flowers are behind them. Flowers of fennel are on the right hand side. The paths are woodchip. It a is calm and quiet mood.
View over a veg plot with raised beds visible over the top of some red crocosmia flowers with bright green strappy leaves, dyer’s chamomile flowers are a bright spot of yellow in the middle of the picture. Purple spikes of red orach plants are in the centre with a backdrop of a large darker purple copper beech tree. On the left of the photo perennial leek bulbils are held on the top of long stalks, tansy flowers are behind them. Flowers of fennel are on the right hand side. The paths are woodchip. It a is calm and quiet mood.
Hollie
@hollie@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The plum tree is PLUM FULL

Gardening is miraculous, I say this as someone who is fully aware of both how much work it is and of how absolutely not up for it I am (housemate grew these).

#garden
hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Today's #MothOfTheDay is a tiny 4mm micromoth (about a grain of rice). Micros are known by their Latin name first, with vernacular as secondary.

LOBESIA RELIQUANA (Wood Marble) A tortrix moth; ergo it spins leaves to create larvae shelters. Hard to photo in focus with 6yr old iPhone because it's so miniscule!

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies#MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Side on shot of a 4-5mm moth about the size of a grain of cooked rice. It faces left. It is three times as long as it is high and it holds its wings tight against its abdomen in a tented position making it look almost tubular. Its scales are a distinct marble pattern of blue, gold and rust in a very metallic sheen, each blotch edged in white. It has a small dark tuft sticking up just behind its head and an antennae which it holds close to its flank.
Side on shot of a 4-5mm moth about the size of a grain of cooked rice. It faces left. It is three times as long as it is high and it holds its wings tight against its abdomen in a tented position making it look almost tubular. Its scales are a distinct marble pattern of blue, gold and rust in a very metallic sheen, each blotch edged in white. It has a small dark tuft sticking up just behind its head and an antennae which it holds close to its flank.
Side on shot of a 4-5mm moth about the size of a grain of cooked rice. It faces left. It is three times as long as it is high and it holds its wings tight against its abdomen in a tented position making it look almost tubular. Its scales are a distinct marble pattern of blue, gold and rust in a very metallic sheen, each blotch edged in white. It has a small dark tuft sticking up just behind its head and an antennae which it holds close to its flank.
hastingsmothman
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Today's #MothOfTheDay is a tiny 4mm micromoth (about a grain of rice). Micros are known by their Latin name first, with vernacular as secondary.

LOBESIA RELIQUANA (Wood Marble) A tortrix moth; ergo it spins leaves to create larvae shelters. Hard to photo in focus with 6yr old iPhone because it's so miniscule!

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies#MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Side on shot of a 4-5mm moth about the size of a grain of cooked rice. It faces left. It is three times as long as it is high and it holds its wings tight against its abdomen in a tented position making it look almost tubular. Its scales are a distinct marble pattern of blue, gold and rust in a very metallic sheen, each blotch edged in white. It has a small dark tuft sticking up just behind its head and an antennae which it holds close to its flank.
Side on shot of a 4-5mm moth about the size of a grain of cooked rice. It faces left. It is three times as long as it is high and it holds its wings tight against its abdomen in a tented position making it look almost tubular. Its scales are a distinct marble pattern of blue, gold and rust in a very metallic sheen, each blotch edged in white. It has a small dark tuft sticking up just behind its head and an antennae which it holds close to its flank.
Side on shot of a 4-5mm moth about the size of a grain of cooked rice. It faces left. It is three times as long as it is high and it holds its wings tight against its abdomen in a tented position making it look almost tubular. Its scales are a distinct marble pattern of blue, gold and rust in a very metallic sheen, each blotch edged in white. It has a small dark tuft sticking up just behind its head and an antennae which it holds close to its flank.
der.hans
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Rewilding Magazine
@rewildingmag@spore.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"We’re not going to save the world with one backyard. But every #garden that supports wildlife, and every person who chooses #habitat over (or in addition to) aesthetics, adds to a growing shift."

#rewilding #pollinators #wildlife #gardening

https://www.rewildingmag.com/our-yard-is-now-teeming-with-life/